Feds ban pot - and supply it

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Elvy Musikka, 72, who suffers from glaucoma, lights a marijuana cigarette, one of many she regularly receives from the U.S. Government, at her home in Eugene, Ore., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. For the past three decades, the federal government has been providing a handful of patients with some of the highest grade marijuana around. The program grew out of a 1976 court settlement that created the country�s first legal pot smoker. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)